I’m Getting Healthy and LOVING It!

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

I was 8 years old when I started smoking. Yep! 8! My mother had no clue or she would’ve beat me! I’m now 30. June 26th was the last day I had a full cigarette. It’s now July 24th and in the last month I’ve only had 4 cigarettes. Well I won’t even count them as full cigarettes because I took 2 drags off of them and almost choked to death! They tasted NASTY! How did I do it you ask?  An electronic cigarette! I totally love it. I still get the nicotine but it’s almost like water vapor. Instead of all of the harmful effects from a cigarette, I get ONLY nicotine. Plus, I get to choose what flavors I put in it! Now if I only could get my wife to quit because it totally smells bad and kissing her is like sticking my face in an ashtray and licking it!

Another way I’ve changed my lifestyle is I’ve started drinking ViSalus shakes. I started out with 1 shake a day and immediately lost 4 pounds. I was so excited that I went ahead and upped my shakes to 2 shakes a day (1 for breakfast and 1 for dinner during the week, and 1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch on the weekend). Let me tell you something. For the first week I was hungry as hell! Nobody told me to snack!! Well duh, Misty! Our bodies tell us when to eat! You know that growling noise our stomach makes? Yeah! That’s it talking to you saying to feed your body!

So once I mastered when to snack (and not at night time while laying in bed like my wife likes to do), I was no longer hungry. The shakes actually started to fill me up because my stomach was shrinking and I would eat when my body was growling at me to feed it. And I wasn’t snacking on ice cream or snack cakes. I feed my body the things it needs to function! I eat fruit, veggies and even things like trail mix (yes the kind with m&m’s in it).

So the thing I love the most about the Body By Vi shakes is that you can customize them to your taste. My absolute favorite shake that I now have almost every morning is a mocha coffee shake. 8 oz. of almond milk; a squirt of no sugar hershey syrup; 1 tsp. of instant coffee and about 6 ice cubes and viola! In the blender it goes and YUM! It’s amazing! See, I’m a coffee junkie so instead of drinking a pot of coffee in the morning, I drink that and have 1 cup of coffee instead.

There are so many different ways to make your shakes. I’ve even heard something about a pickle shake. I’ll leave that to the pickle lovers I guess cuz that just sounds gross! Most other shakes come in chocolate, strawberry or vanilla and I guess you could still mix other things in them, however, those ones are usually way higher in calories. Whereas the Visalus shakes come in a sweet cream flavor (smells like a cake mix) and only has 90 calories.

Diabetic Friendly

The shakes are diabetic friendly. I have hypoglycemia and it didn’t matter if I had breakfast in the morning or not, an hour later my sugar would drop and I was shaking and felt awful! I would get clammy and silent and even mean! I would yell at whoever was near me to hurry up and get my glucose tablets which tasted like salt when I would eat them so I could hurry up and get my sugar up. THEN I would still have to find something to eat and make sure it was enough so my sugar wouldn’t crash again! Usually about a couple of hours later it would still end up crashing unless I was consistently snacking, which in turn caused me to gain more and more weight. UGH! It was a never ending cycle that I couldn’t get out of no matter what!

Then my friend brought the ViSalus shakes to my attention. Now, he didn’t mention anything about diabetic friendly or anything like that to me, just the losing weight part. Well at this point (186 lbs), I was willing to try anything to lose the weight. Well, the weight is coming off (I’m down to 174 today!) and since I’ve been on the shakes I have not had 1 single crash! I haven’t had to have 1 single nasty glucose tablet, not 1 single shake, not one moment of claminess and not one single moment of being a complete meanie head to anybody near me! I LOVE it!

I’m well on my way to getting healthy again. With the help of the shakes, P90X and quitting smoking, I’ll be healthy again in no time!

Until Next Time,

Misty

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